Five NATO troops die in Afghanistan

Five international coalition troops died Tuesday and an Afghan district official, his son and a body guard were assassinated in southern Afghanistan where the Taliban are targeting people loyal to the government and its foreign partners. Abdul Jabar Murghani, chief of Arghandab district, was driving home when a remote-controlled bomb exploded in a car parked along his route. Arghandab the same area where a suicide bomber killed 56 people at a wedding party last week is a dangerous area of Kandahar province. Afghan and NATO forces are ramping up security in the province to drive the Taliban from their spiritual homeland and bolster the Afghan central government's control across the country where there has been an uptick in violence.